Archive for June, 2007
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Discover the basics of photo editing and sharing with Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition software, the free software that makes it easier than ever to view, find, fix, and share your photo memories. It’s fast, easy, and best of all — it’s free!
• Fix common photo flaws — like red eye, color, and brightness — in a single click.
• Easily share your memories! Attach photos to e-mail, send them to mobile phones or easily create a CD. • Make your own prints, or order prints, photo books, and more online.
• Find any photo in a snap with automatic organization that lets you view all of your digital photos in one place using a familiar calendar view.
Please note: Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 is not a time-limited or photo-limited download. It provides basic functionality to get you started editing and sharing your photos.
Download: Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
EverNote is a FREE note-taking application - designed for users of all Desktops, Laptops and Tablets. Quickly create, organize and find any type of notes on an endless, digital roll of paper.
EverNote lets you easily store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!
This is a FREE version with no expiration.
Download: EverNote 2.1.0.327 Windows 2000/XP/XP Tablet PC Edition/Vista
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Consumer mania kicks in
Queues have already started for those wanting to purchase Apple’s iPhone, which goes on sale in the US on Friday.
The phone will go on sale at 6pm on 29 June across the country priced at $499 for 4GB of memory and $599 for 8GB, plus a $36 activation fee.
Running costs are expected to be $60-$100 per month and buyers must sign up for a two-year contract.
Full story: vnunet.com
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them. This, all with the unique style and top-rate performance that ObjectDock is known to deliver!
Features
• Put short-cuts on your dock
• Display running tasks on your dock
• Put docklets on your dock
• Icons zoom on mouse-over
• Change the appearance of the icons of running tasks and short-cuts
• Position dock on any edge of the screen
• Optionally represent running programs by snapshot of their window
• Optionally hide Windows taskbar
• Skinnable
• Optional rocking icons on mouse over
Download: ObjectDock 1.9 | Screenshots Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Hard Times with Ingram Micro
Is there no end to this company’s ambitions? Google has signed up Ingram Micro, the world’s biggest IT wholesaler, to distribute its hardware search appliance box in the US.
Distributors are useful for credit, delivery and product returns. They are used to making next to no money and love new products where the margins flow freely and the vendor marketing budgets are generous.
Does Google fit the bill? As the world’s most efficient advertising network, it has little need to turn to others to make market on its behalf. But its name is not yet synonymous with enterprise search - Autonomy and FAST are contenders too.
Read more: channelregister.co.uk
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
BBC Future Media & Technology Director Ashley Highfield launches the iPlayer.
The BBC’s on demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch to the public on 27 July, the corporation has revealed.
UK users will be able to download popular shows over the net seven days after broadcast to watch on their PC.
Later this year, the service will also be available via links from YouTube and could also appear on other websites such as MSN, Bebo, and Facebook.
At launch the application will only work on Windows PCs but a version for the Mac could be available by autumn.
Full article: BBC News
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
a-squared Anti-Malware is a complementary product to antivirus software and desktop firewalls on MS Windows computers. Antivirus software specializes in detecting classic viruses. Many available products have weaknesses in detecting other malicious software (Malware) like Trojans, Dialers, Worms and Spyware (Adware). a-squared fills the gap that malware writers exploit.
Download: a-squared Anti-Malware 3.5 Windows 98, ME, 2000, 2000 Server, XP, 2003, Vista
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
The logical and easy to use VistaBootPRO interface makes it easy for both the novice and advanced user to make changes to the Boot Configuration Data store (BCD) without having to use the complex command line application bcdedit.exe
Advanced settings include backing up and exporting your boot loader configuration, making advanced “functional” changes like adding an operating system to the boot menu, repairing the Windows Vista boot configuration data and modifying other settings which will affect the way that Vista boots.
VistaBootPRO can also be used to make “cosmetic” changes to the Windows Vista boot menu such as changing the name of the Operating Systems shown and changing the default boot operating system.
System Requirements: Windows XP (Home, PRO, x64, MCE 2005), 2003 Server, Vista, or Longhorn Server. All systems must have the .NET framework 2.0
Download: VistaBootPRO 3.3
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Yahoo, as well as Pandora, MTV, Real/Rhapsody and many others are honoring the “day of silence” today in protest of the ridiculous new royalty rates for Internet radio stations.
The big music labels have lobbied to get the U.S. government to really stick it to Internet radio stations, when terrestrial radio stations pay nothing to play songs and Satellite providers pay a greatly reduced rate.
Read more: Techcrunch.com
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1TB hard drive.
The company announced on Monday that it will offer a retail hard drive for $399 (£199) beginning in the third quarter of this year. The Barracuda 7200.11 will have up to 32MB of cache and a five-year warranty.
Read more: ZDNet.co.uk
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
BGEye displays system information on the desktop. The information is rendered to a bitmap that is temporarily set as the system wallpaper.
Rendered elements optionally include…
5 Title Text(s), UserName, Local Date and Time (*Always included*), ‘Day Of Year’, ‘Percent Of Year’, ComputerName, Computer Uptime, Accumulator (Days, Hours and Minutes), CPU(s) (Clock Speed (MHz), Model, Manufacturer etc), Graphics Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc), Audio Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc), Network Devices (Model, Manufacturer etc), USB Device(s), Processes (Total and Minumum, Average and Maximum), RAM (Size, Load and Minumum, Average and Maximum Load (Load includes Page File)), Registry (Size and Size Limit), Local Disk Drives (Type, Size and Load), Remote (Networked) Disk Drives (Type, Size and Load)…
Features
· The information BGEye displays is updated every minute.
· Suits for BGEye can be selected by clicking the system tray icon.
· BGEye uses your 3D Graphics Card and DirectX 9.0c to render the background and other elements.
· BGEye automatically detects when a fullscreen DirectX application is running and will do no processing until it has exited.
· The background and elements are all configurable by means of text-file input.
· Stand-alone executable. No install required. Includes self-referencing link creation/deletion code.
Download: BGEye 3.0.4.2 Windows 2000/2003/XP
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
GetMail For Hotmail is an email forwarding program that started life because of the lack of a POP3 server for the Hotmail email system. If you have tried looking for a POP3 server address for Hotmail or MSN mail you’ll know what I mean! From this it has evolved into a flexible email forwarding program. If you use GetMail For Hotmail with other third party POP3 tools such as FreePOPS or YPOPS you can also forward on AOL, Yahoo and many other webmail only email accounts making it the ideal tool to use for not only mass migrating all your e-mail to Gmail but also to continue forwarding on mail received in your old accounts!
Some of GetMail for Hotmail’s main features include :
:: Windows Live Mail Forwarding
:: Hotmail Forwarding
:: MSN Forwarding
:: POP3 Forwarding
:: Multiple recipients
:: Read your Hotmail, MSN, Windows Live Mail on your Blackberry
:: SSL compatible (To use SSL you will need to download 2 extra DLL’s.)
:: SMS Compatability Features
:: Run as a windows service
:: Free Software
Download: GetMail for Hotmail 4.0
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Little is known about what features and enhancements will be included in Internet Explorer 8. As Jeremy reported back in May, Microsoft is placing most of its focus on RSS, CSS, AJAX, and microformats. While the company has yet to give a specific release date for the new browser, website TheHotfix.net is reporting that the company has given a rough time frame for the first beta.
According to the site, the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 will be made available when Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) ships later this year.
Read more: arstechnica.com
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
SIM-IM (SIM Instant Messenger) is a free software package licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). SIM provides a plugin-based instant messenger with support for various protocols: ICQ and AIM, Jabber, LiveJournal, MSN and Yahoo!
Based on the Qt library (with optional KDE support) SIM-IM works on most operating systems with X Window System (X11), such as Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. SIM-IM works great on MS Windows also.
Download: SIM-IM 0.9.5 Beta
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Privacy rules too precise
SEARCH ENGINE outfit Google is set to close its Gmail operation in Germany over a spat about privacy.
According to Spiegel, Google has chucked its toys from its pram over the German Bundestag’s new Internet surveillance law.
Read more: theinquirer.net
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
BitWise is the first cross platform, encrypted, direct-connect instant messenger offering the same Features on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Without ads or spyware, BitWise is loaded with features such as fast file sharing, “tabbed” interface, automatic encryption of messages and files, whiteboards, XML and plaintext logging, invisibility, offline messaging and more. You owe it to yourself to protect and secure your instant messages like you protect and secure the rest of your PC.
BitWise is free only for personal use.
No ads, no spyware, no sharing of personal information
Download: BitWise IM 1.7.3 Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
A month after Symantec knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with bad software, the company is offering compensation.
More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it’s only good for a couple of weeks.
Symantec’s problems in China began on May 18, when it released a bad software update that caused its Norton antivirus software to wrongly identify two system files in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP as malware and quarantine them. That mistake, which Symantec blamed on “an automated process,” left tens of thousands of PCs crippled and Internet bulletin boards full of angry posts.
Full story: pcworld.com
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Post2Blog is a FREEWARE handy blog editor with live spell-checking support for pro-bloggers
- FREEWARE WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with complete hot-keys support;
- Built-in “Live” spellchecking;
- “Portable Mode” support;
- Images are uploaded automatically (supported uploading types: Flickr (see example), file area of your blog, imageshack.us, picturelli.com, custom FTP server);
- Post text and/or images from Firefox or Internet Explorer to your blog with 2 clicks only using plugins for Firefox (check example) and Internet Explorer;
- Compose new posts in MS Word and post them to your blog using Post2Blog toolbar for MS Word;
- Integration with RSS Bandit (rssbandit.org) and Sharp Reader (sharpreader.net) - you can post selected items from these RSS readers using Post2Blog plugin;
- Post files, images, documents from Explorer or any other program using “Send To -> Post2Blog” command;
- Add Technorati, Del.icio.us, Buzzwords, 43 Things tags to your posts;
- Automatically send trackbacks, ping web-services to notify about updates in your blogs;
- Earn money using “Insert Amazon Link” feature;
- Use built-in smiles for use in your blog;
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Download: Post2Blog 3.01
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
eBay resumes Google advertising
After their bust up over a spolier party earlier this month, eBay and Google are back in bed together, albeit with less cash changing hands.
eBay got huffy when the search strumpet, which is going after PayPal’s online payments dominance with its cheaper Checkout system, tried to pimp itself at a party on the fringes of a partner event in Boston. eBay summarily withdrew its advertising, which had made it Google’s best punter.
In a rare public defeat, Google flinched, and canned the party.
Read more: theregister.co.uk
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